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I was above myself and floating upwards...
I was a teenager at the time of my experience...
I went through prostate surgery and was recovering in my room...
My blood pressure dropped out while having an operation to remove a cyst off my lower spine...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
I recall flying over myself while lying on an operating room table in a hospital...
I was extremely sick...
I looked down and saw my own body on the operating table...
This happened in 1974...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
I was around 5 years old playing in a field with my step brother...
I realized that I was no more than an eye or something with vision, which was me, and I was on top of the lights in the surgery room...
